Re: Confused about docs for script_files & M::B V 0.280801

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Ron Savage <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> In the docs for Module::Build::API it says, under script_files:
>
> "The default is to install no script files - in other words, there is no
> default location where Module::Build will look for script files to
> install."

Looks like that's a documentation bug that was introduced back in
2004, with revision 5118 in SVN.  I'll fix the docs like so:

--- lib/Module/Build/API.pod	(revision 11537)
+++ lib/Module/Build/API.pod	(working copy)
@@ -683,13 +683,13 @@

 An optional parameter specifying a set of files that should be
 installed as executable Perl scripts when the module is installed.
-May be given as an array reference of the files, or as a hash
-reference whose keys are the files (and whose values will currently be
-ignored).
+May be given as an array reference of the files, as a hash reference
+whose keys are the files (and whose values will currently be ignored),
+as a string giving the name of a directory in which to find scripts,
+or as a string giving the name of a single script file.

-The default is to install no script files - in other words, there is
-no default location where Module::Build will look for script files to
-install.
+The default is to install any scripts found in a F<bin> directory at
+the top level of the distribution.